Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 860 records

Total number of records: 860

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items805
Archives55

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature860
Brotherton Collection772
Leeds Poetry29
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english drama24
english poetry21
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)19
letters17
lectures and lecturing england leeds9
oratorios9
poets, english8
ballads, english7
english literature7
poetry7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain24
France6
Rome2
Spain2
Byzantine Empire1
Calais (France)1
Damascus (Syria)1
England1
Europe1
London (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John (1631-1700)29
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)28
Hills, Henry20
Hills, Henry (1713)20
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)18
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)18
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)16
Garrick, David (1717-1779)14
Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)11
Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)11

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 1600149
From 1700582
From 180039
From 190085
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 1699144
Up to 1799570
Up to 189952
Up to 199986
Up to latest4

Archive File

D.W. Harding

1967-1977

Letters from Harding to Francis Berry. Mainly discussing each other's personal and family lives.

More details


Archive Print Item

W.H. Auden

Davison, Dennis (1923-); Bridgen, John William

1970

More details


Archive Print Item

Dotage. A poem, inscrib'd to a gentleman within a few years of his grand-climacterick

J. W

1728

A dissuasion in verse against late marriage.

More details


Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

An epistle to the most learned Doctor W--d----d; from a prude, that was unfortunately metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722

Gay, John (1685-1732); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Woodward, John (1665-1728)

1723

Signed: Prudentia. Doctor W--d----d = John Woodward. T. W. in the imprint = Thomas Wood. Anon., by John Gay; Dr. John Arbuthnot has also been suggested as the author of this work (see Wise, Ashl...

More details


Archive Print Item

Ramelies: a poem : humbly inscrib'd to his Grace, the D. of Marlborough

Wagstaffe, William (1685-1725); Marlborough, John Churchill Duke of (1650-1722)

1706

Indexed in: Foxon W3.

More details


Archive Print Item

Quadrille to perfection as play'd at Soissons : or, The Norfolk congress pursu'd, versify'd and enliven'd

Bath, William Pulteney Earl of (1684-1764)

[ca.1730]

Satirical verse spoken in turn by nations, sovereigns, and diplomats, apparently about the Polish succession. Text headed "The game at quadrille".

More details


Archive Print Item

The Duel : a poem, inscribed to the Rt. Hon. W---- P---y,Esq

1731

Refers to the duel fought between Pulteney and Hervey on 25 Jan. 1731.

More details


Archive Print Item

The case of the helmeted airman : a study of W.H. Auden's poetry

DuchĂȘne, François (1927-); Bridgen, John William

1972

More details


Archive Print Item

Edward Morgan Forster O.M., C.H., Hon.Litt.D. 1869 [sic., i.e. 1879]-1970 : honorary fellow sometime supernumerary fellow

Wilkinson, L P; King's College (Cambridge University). Council

1970

Cover title: E.M. Forster and King's. "The Council have therefore agreed that we should reprint, with a few photographs, alterations and amendments, a chapter on 'Forster and King's' Stallybrass... ...

More details


Archive Print part

Venice preserv'd, or, A plot discover'd : a tragedy

Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)

1746

More details


Archive Print part

Moderation display'd : a poem

Shippen, William (1673-1743)

1705 [1704]

The author of Faction display'd = William Shippen; this work is only doubtfully attributed to him. Shippen's text, interspersed with anonymous verse 'answer' (of Moderation vindicated', Foxon S440)....

More details